Origin
Shrapnel is a mutant, he was born with his exploding power. Though MyS-Tech enhanced his abilities.
Death?
Shrapnel’s fragmented body was partially blown into a vat of acid, in theory Shrapnel was half dissolved and killed by this accident, though some debate if a man capable of reassembling at a cellular level can truly die this way…
Creation
Shrapnel was created by Graham Marks, Andy Lanning and Phil Gascoine in 1993 and first appeared in Genetix # 2.